Starting around 10:20 a.m. PT, the social platform Reddit appeared to suffer an outage.
On the tracking site Downdetector, 4,000 reports spiked with users mostly saying that "Old Reddit" was having issues. Though some comments suggested that "new" Reddit wasn't loading images properly.
Soon after the reports ballooned to more than 10,000, it eventually settled closer to 9,300.
Reddit was aware as the official status page listed the company as investigating the issue. It showed "degraded performance" across multiple sections of the site.
After about an hour, reports took a steep dive and settled below 500 when we called the outage. After the Reddit fix, images and and comments seemed to load normally.
Thousands of reports on Downdetector
On DownDetector, reports quickly spiked to around 10,000 before dipping back down a bit.
Comments on the site seem to indicate it's mostly affecting "Old reddit" but some people are saying that images are slow to load on the "new" reddit
Reddit is aware
The official Reddit status page shows that the company is investigating the issue.
Several operations show "degraded performance" including the desktop website, mobile app and and mobile website.
Reddit does appear laggy
Anecdotally, I am able to login to regular Reddit and browse.
However, comments are slow to popin and images take a moment. Usually I can see images in the main feed but those are only showing as links.
Going into subreddits I'm having a hard time loading older posts that aren't the most recent 5 or so.
Fix in the works
The Reddit status page just updated.
It now reads that the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
"hile this is ongoing, you may encounter errors and general loading issues across feeds, posts, and search. Recently uploaded images and videos may not appear as expected," the site says.
What are you seeing?
Are you having any issues with Reddit today?
Let us know in the comments.
Reports declining but still high
Over on Downdetector, reports have dipped down to around 5,200 after a high of 9,300.
I am seeing some comments of people indicating that the platform appears to be yo-yoing between available and down.
One person blamed Microsoft's Azure going down as the cause. I can't verify that at this time and it doesn't appear the Azure is actively having issues from what I can see.
Outage may be over
On Downdetector, reports have steeply fallen to below 1,000.
However, the official reddit status page has yet to give the all clear.
We'll keep an eye on that in case anything changes.
Anecdotally, images and media seem to be loading normally for me. And comments and posts aren't lagging as they were previously.
Calling it
With reports under 500, and Reddit seemingly back to working properly.
The status page has not yet updated, but they may be waiting until it appears the fix is fully implemented on their end.
